Mancur Olson’s photo The Rise and Decline of Nations it doesn’t paint a particularly optimistic picture: once your nation has…
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Yves here. No matter how bad you think Trump is, it’s pretty bad. RFK, Jr. he continues (like many Trump…
Read More »From the IMF’s Asia Pacific Department, the blog “Asian Economic Stability Tested by Energy Shocks”, two interesting tables: Dependence on…
Read More »Yves here. To see what the US has in store for the future. look for severe, long-lasting fires in northern…
Read More »There are at least two definitions of “governance” in relation to fiscal and monetary policy. The first, proposed by Milton…
Read More »That’s my definition. From their recently released NBER Working Paper, The Risk of International Conflict and Trade: Military Wars, Trade…
Read More »The Yale report was really good but in summary I prefer Kevin Bryan’s Eight Commandments: 1. Produce and Teach Useful…
Read More »Front month Brent futures (for June) jumped tonight. Where fuel prices are going, conditional on those coming days is anyone’s…
Read More »Consider this graph, comparing the Administration’s forecast to the latest WSJ forecast, and the error-correction model that includes the population…
Read More »Roumak Das, a grade 11 student from West Bengal, and Samik Goyal, a grade 12 student from Patiala, received their…
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